~Streamline Your Shortcuts

Shortcuts should save you time and effort by providing direct links to frequently used programs and files, letting you skip having to click through several menus and folders, but that's not always the case nowadays. As you install new programs, each o...

~Streamline Your Shortcuts

Just tried the new tool. Looks pretty good. One feature that it is missing in mind jumped right out - a function/button to open the folder containing the selected shortcut. You have the function to open the folder containing the target of the shortcut, so this addition would seem natural to me. This functionality is provided in your regular find utilities.

~Streamline Your Shortcuts

I installed in on my XP system in an AD domain and it never worked at all. Not a single cookie deleted, no popups blocked etc.

The history showed 0 for every item.

Even going to PC Mag which does lots of cookies for ad tracking etc had the cookies for ad tracking written onto the drive popups occurred even when set to the ultimate setting (not to be confused with the The Ultimate meaning of life from Douglas Adams guidebook).

Very strange.

Course one item of note on my system is that I have no C drive at all and thus any references to that always fails. (Lots of programs have embedded hard code to C instead of %systemroot%.)

~Streamline Your Shortcuts

Which utility are you using? It sounds like you may be using CookieCop 3. Is that right? This discussion is for Shortcut Manager, which isn't designed for cookie management or popup blocking -- so I'm sure you're not referring to that one. :)

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